| Glass Contributor(s): Garrison, John S. (Author), Bogost, Ian (Editor), Schaberg, Christopher (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1628924241 ISBN-13: 9781628924244 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 620.144 |
| LCCN: 2015011014 |
| Series: Object Lessons |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.6" W x 6.4" (0.30 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garrison, John: - John Garrison is Assistant Professor of English at Carroll University, USA. His work has appeared Cultural Critique, DoubleTake/Points of Entry, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Medievalia et Humanistica, Milton Quarterly, Literature Compass, Literature/Film Quarterly, Postmodern Culture, and Studies in Philology, as well as in the scholarly collections Women in Science Fiction and Scotland as Science Fiction. His book, Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance, is forthcoming from Routledge in late 2013. Prior to pursuing a career in teaching, he helped develop technology and marketing innovations for leading companies including Sony Electronics, Marvel Entertainment, Yahoo!, Panasonic, and Warner Brothers Pictures.Schaberg, Christopher: - Christopher Schaberg is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2013) and co-editor of Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014). He is series co-editor (Ian Bogost) of the series Object Lessons.Bogost, Ian: - Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. Bogost is author or co-author of seven books: Unit Operations (2006), Persuasive Games (2007), Racing the Beam ( 2009), Newsgames (2010), How To Do Things with Videogames (2011), Alien Phenomenology (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), and 10 PRINT CHR (205.5+RND(1)); Goto 10 (2012). Bogost also creates videogames that cover topics as varied as airport security, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, and tort reform. His games have been played by millions of people and exhibited internationally. His game A Slow Year, a collection of game poems for Atari, won the Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at the 2010 Indiecade Festival. |